IN 2019 UKRAINE ADMITS WAR WITH RUSSIA IS ABOUT WEALTH & POWER FOR EVIL CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRES
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Zelenskyy accuses Putin of genocide in Ukraine: 'Elimination of the whole nation'
He noted, "It wasn't enough just to kill for those criminals."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday said Russia's invasion of his country is a "genocide" and that Kremlin officials, not just Russian President Vladimir Putin, should be held accountable.
His comments come after photos surfaced over the weekend showing mass graves outside of Kyiv following the withdrawal of Russian troops. Other images from Bucha, Ukraine, show Kremlin forces apparently targeted vehicles marked with the Russian word for children, and executed civilians with their hands tied behind their backs.
Russia's representative to the United Nations blamed "Ukrainian radicals’ provocation" for the situation in Bucha. "We will unmask Ukrainian provocateurs and their Western patrons," diplomat Dmitry Polyanskiy said Sunday, Russia's state-run Tass reported.
"Indeed, this is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people. We are the citizens of Ukraine. We have more than 100 nationalities. This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities," Zelenskyy told Margaret Brennan on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"We are the citizens of Ukraine and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation. This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated, and this is happening in the Europe of the 21st century. So this is the torture of the whole nation," the Ukrainian president said.
Zelenskyy said he doesn't understand Russia's reported brutal violence.
He said that Ukrainian officials have found people "with hands tied behind their back and decapitated" and "kids who were killed and tortured."
He noted, "It wasn't enough just to kill for those criminals. Maybe they wanted to take gold or washing machines and they were killing, but they were also torturing them as they did this."
Tthe Ukrainian president said that prosecution for war crimes should go beyond Putin.
"We believe in justice," he said.
"The question is not only about the leader of Russian Federation. We wouldn't think that it would be fair to take only him. I think all the military commanders, everyone who gave instructions and orders should be punished adequately," Zelenskyy told CBS.
He said he feels that prison is not a harsh enough sentence.
"As the father of two children and as a president, I think that these people, if they are put behind the bars, this is one too little for what they have done," Zelenskyy said.
Russia said last week that it was "regrouping" troops to key fronts in Ukraine, but officials in Kyiv disputed the claims.
https://justthenews.com/world/europe/zelenskyy-accuses-putin-genocide-ukraine-elimination-whole-nation
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday
Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and sent prices even higher into the stratosphere…
… on Monday, Germany will take one step toward a return of the dreaded Weimar hyperinflation, when according to the German Retail Association (HDE), consumers should prepare for another wave of price hikes for everyday goods and groceries with Reuters reporting that prices at German retail chains will explode between 20 and 50%:
GERMAN RETAIL CHAINS TO INCREASE FOOD PRICES BY 20-50% FROM MONDAY
Even before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, prices had risen by about five per cent “across the product range” as a result of increased energy prices, HDE President Josef Sanktjohanser told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Friday. With Russia’s invasion hitting economies and the supply chain harder, yet another series of price increases is on the horizon.
“The second wave of price increases is coming, and it will certainly be in double figures,” Sanktjohanser warned, cited by The Local.
According to the president of the trade association, the first retail chains have already started to raise their prices in Germany – and the rest are likely to follow.
“We will soon be able to see the impact of the war reflected in price labels across all the supermarkets,” said Sanktjohanser.
Recently, popular retail chains such as Aldi, Edeka and Globus announced that they would be forced to raise their prices. At Aldi, meat and butter will be “significantly more expensive” from Monday due to price hikes from its suppliers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/german-retailers-increase-food-prices-20-50-monday
Convicted child rapist nabbed for assault after lax sentence from Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson doled out a lenient sentence to a child rapist for violating probation — and he allegedly struck again during the time when prosecutors wanted him locked up, The Post has learned.
The Biden nominee’s handling of sex offender Leo Weekes’ case emerged in a tranche of court filings and transcripts sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday — just days before the panel is set to vote on whether to report her nomination to the full Senate.
While Republicans have previously highlighted Jackson’s practice of giving the lightest possible punishments in child pornography cases, the Weekes case throws into question her treatment of rapists, as well.
“This case is yet another example of information coming to light after the nomination hearing concluded because of the Democrats’ rushed vetting process,” a Republican Judiciary Committee aide told The Post Saturday.
‘A life of dishonesty’
In 2010, Weekes was convicted in DC Superior Court of raping his 13-year-old niece four years earlier. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail and four years of supervised probation and was required to register as a sex offender for the next decade, according to records obtained by The Post.
But instead, Weekes failed to register — lying about his whereabouts by claiming he lived in DC in February 2013 when prosecutors said he was really living with his wife in Temple Hills, Maryland since 2012.
He was hauled before Jackson, then a federal judge in DC, on Feb. 19, 2014 for sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to register.
Prosecutors asked that Weekes receive a two-year sentence — the low end of the federal guidelines, which ranged up to 30 months — with another five years of supervised release. Weekes’ attorney asked for a maximum sentence of 10 months, plus three years of supervised release.
Prosecutor Ari Redbord told Jackson that Weekes had lived “an adult life of dishonesty, of fraud, of failing to obey court orders, and that is exactly what he did here,” according to a transcript of the hearing.
Redbord then underscored the seriousness of the rape case, for which Weekes was convicted of simple assault and three misdemeanor counts.
“This is not a butt grab, a misdemeanor kind of case … this is not consensual sex between a 20-year-old and a 16-year-old,” the prosecutor told Jackson. “This is an individual who, at trial, was convicted of essentially violently raping a 13-year-old child.”
Jackson, however, appeared unmoved, saying there was “no evidence” Weekes had been intentionally ducking probation officers, though she conceded he had “gotten a number of breaks, perhaps undeservedly so” in the earlier assault case.
“I do believe that criminal history is having a disproportionate impact on the sentence that the guidelines prescribe in this particular case in light of what you actually did here,” said Jackson before sentencing Weekes to 12 months, with credit for time served, according to the transcript.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/03/rapist-gets-lax-sentence-from-jackson-then-nabbed-for-sex-assault/
https://nypost.com/2022/04/03/rapist-gets-lax-sentence-from-jackson-then-nabbed-for-sex-assault/
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Sen. Johnson: Media is being ‘caught in a cover-up’
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Biden ‘Confident’ Son Hunter Biden Didn’t Break the Law: White House Chief of Staff
President Joe Biden believes that Hunter Biden, his son, didn’t break the law, said White House chief of staff Ron Klain in an interview on Sunday.
“Of course the president is confident that his son didn’t break the law,” Klain told ABC News’ “This Week” in response to renewed discussion about his overseas business ties and the content of a laptop hard drive that belongs to him.
There have long been questions swirling around the Biden family and their ties to businesses in China, Ukraine, and other countries.
Documents and messages from Hunter Biden’s laptop referenced a deal that Biden pursued with a Chinese Communist Party-linked emergency firm for which he was paid $5 million, according to a recent article for the Washington Post, which hired two security experts to authenticate the laptop. Other emails related to his work for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings—whose founder Mykola Zlovchesky is under investigation by Kyiv for alleged corruption—was also detailed.
The laptop story was broken by the New York Post in late 2020 before Twitter, Facebook, and other social media companies moved to limit its reach. Twitter also locked the NY Post’s account for more than two weeks, claiming the outlet published “hacked material.”
However, the contents of the laptop were referenced during a debate at the time between President Donald Trump and candidate Joe Biden. Biden told Trump that his son did not receive millions of dollars from a Russian woman who was the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov: “That’s not true. None of that is true.”
https://www.ntd.com/biden-confident-son-hunter-biden-didnt-break-the-law-white-house-chief-of-staff_760973.html